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:jumping: Hi Rebbeccka, Totally amazing First to have this photo identified and now to hear from you and learn that he is still alive and well. Fantastic, wow! Please send my regards to your grandfather, do you know if he has seen the book about Allied Airmen who landed in Sweden? If not I could send him one as a birthday present from Sweden where he was 70 years ago. Thanks to people like him my parents could wake up one morning in May 1945 and didn´t have to be worried about being occupied like Norway and Denmark. My father lost a brother when his ship was torpedoed in the Atlantic and my grandfather was standing at the Norwegian border and looking at the Germans on the other side. A big Thank you from Sweden to the Olympic country Canada Best regards Christer

and last document wich is ? Some sort of discharge ?? uhh christer

And now doc nr 3 from before the War ??

And here next doc nr 2 of 4 christer

Is there anyone out there who can help with translating these documents ? There is a EK II dok and he was in the Kaiserliche Marine that much I can figure out but then .... Dont even see what his rank is ? Any help is welcome First doc !

Here is a fighter from 1918-1922 wars but without any Liberty CRoss or even a Bravery medal and most strange no Commerative medal for 1918 ? Maybe its a bottom of a 2 row bar and all the others tuff is still out there somewhere? Here is what we got : War of Kindred Nations Commerative Cross - Battle of Tampere com medal-Eastern Carelia Cross or Aunus Cross - Lappland war com Cross !! Hmm here we have a fighter from 1918 who was in the fierce battle of Tampere 1918, was along the 9000 Finns whou fought in the different wars between 1918-1922 (Estonia,Aunus,Carelia etc) and still was joining the army in some way in 1940 on the Lapland front. An interestin thought is , if you put the ribbon bar in post 10 on top of this you get a quite good match Lib cross 1939 nc - Bravery 1st 1918 - Com medal 1918 -Com medal 1940 ! They are bought from the same seller and made exactly the same. But are they a pair? I will never know.... Christer

Next one is Finnish for sure and a little bit more complicated Here we have a Finn that hade some sort of behind front duty during the Continuation war 1941-44, could have been a fireman or police maybe ? And later participated in some way in the Olympics 1952 ! Com medal Con war - Cross of Merit Olympic Games (1st,2nd or 3rd class) - Civil Defence medal of Merit - Oinonen Group Com Cross Gen Maj Woldemar Oinonen was the commander of Group Oinonen wich fought on the Carelia and Ladoga front during 1941-42 So this soldier was attached to that unit in some way. Christer

G´day gentlemen ! Thought I would share some more Finnish Ribbon bars with you. And first I start with a off topic one This is not a typical Finnish bar... because it once belonged to a Swedish man fighting on the Finnish side in Winterwar 1939-40. First two Swedish medals and than the Finnish ones. Maybe he was a doc or medic ? Swedish Civildefence medal (broncesilver or gold)- Swedish Red Cross medal - Liberty Cross 4th 1939 - Com medal 1940 ws The combo Lib cross/ Com medal is very common seen for a private/NCO/Lt Swedish soldier fighting in winter war. Christer

Here a little different ribbon bar also from two war but not the usual ones .... Here we have: Bravery medal 1st 1918- Com medal 1918 - Battle of Tammerfors 1918- and ... hm could be Eastern Carelia Com cross 1919-1922 or Aunus Com Cross 1918-1922 both for wars fought after the world war 1. christer

Next bar is a two war veteran : First Lib cross 4th nc 1939 ? - Bravery medal 1st 1918 ?- Com medal 1918 - Com medal 1940 nc Maybe to old for fight in winter war but still in service Christer

At last a womans bar ! One of my favorites She was a member of the military womans org "Lotta Swaerd" The did fantastic work in during all wartime. This woman was awarded a: Lib cross non fighter 1939- Knight White Rose order-Lotta Svaerd Merit Cross- Com med 1940 Hmm just realized that the third on is Lotta Svaerd Merit Cross! Wow super rare only 400 was awarded. This make the bar even nicer Christer

Here is a soldier from the 1941-44 war from the Coastal Artillery. Finland had a quite large and very good Coastal Artillery during the war wich the Soviet navy realized more then once Bravery medal 2nd 1941- Continuation war Com med - Coastal Art com cross - Blue cross (vet cross from the 60s) Christer

One problem with Finnish Ribbons bars is that they almost like the Austrians in WW1 use the same ribbon for different classes and even worse different years The problem with the classes is solved by putting devices on the ribbon .... the problem is that time take the silver away and everything looks like gold (brass devices) Here is a typical ex of what you can see: Lib Cross 4th ? w oakleaves 1941 - Lib cross 4th 1939 ? - Bravery 2nd 1939 ? - Com med 1940 (swords lost) christer

And another typical 1939-44 fighter, this is a vet from two war. Lib cross 3rd 1941- Lib cross 4th w oakleaf 1941 - Bravery medal 1939- Com med 1940 ws Fighting in winter war and then again in the fire a year later.... Hopefully he made it through the war, and could add a 1941 Com medal later in teh fifties. Christer

And here is another old fighter ! Lib 4th- Lib 4th civil- Com medal 1918 (with rose for bravery)- Com med 1940 wo swords A brave fighter from 1918 with lib cross 4th and later in 1939 lib cross 4th civil and home front duty ? Christer

Mooore Finnish Ribbons !! I thought there is to few Finnish ribbon bars here, as a Swedish collector with limited wallet the collecting of WW 1 German ribbon bars is a almost impossible task But still there is Finnish ribbons out there So I thought I should show you some from my collection, here we go 1: This I have shown before but it is such a beauty so I post again Lib Cross 2nd (homefront?)-Lib cross 3rd-lib cross 4th-Com White Rose-Knight White Rose-Com medal 1918-Com med 1940 ws- medal battle of Tammerfors 1918-Hk (means he was in the Jaeger rgt)-Eagle Order The height is only half of a ordinarie ribbon bar, some people say that the Finnish navy used these "half-bars" A former 27 Jaeger who fought in Tammerfors and later in 1939-40 and still in service in 1941 at least Colonel or GenMaj christer

And the backside of the badge , quite well done in brass and enamel Christer

And here is the badge ! Christer

Hi , I dont think we had this badge up earlier ? I am not sure that it really belong to Ministry of Interior awards If I am right it was awrded for some sort of vol police force? I suppose these guys where´t so poular after the change of politics.... So this documents maybe ended up in the trashbin. Here is first the document

Here is a new photo that just arrived, a Bulgarian Officer with Bulgarian Order of Merit V klass and a German Eagle Order Haven´t seen much of period photos with Eagle Order so I thought i would be interesting to share this one. All the best from sweden Christer

And the backside , maybe used for self defence .... Christer

Hi all, I won this little beauty last week in a auction. Love it because it not so common with the Ehremkreuz on finnish ribbonbars and probably all the exiting has ow´ners that where once in the Preussian 27th Jaeger Rgt. First Bravery Medal II class (probably 1918) Then Winter war medal wo swords (service behind the front?) and last Ehrenkreuz (missing swords but I´ve seen that before , maybe they didn´t have any similar swords ?) Backside is a quite unique fastening Christer

Here is another Meiningen ribbon bar that I just bought, a Bavarian I wonder if there where many Bavarians with this medal ? (seller pics) Christer

:cheers: very nice , so simple and soooo rare ! I have never even seen a document Do anyone have a pic of it ? With such a rare award it should be a rather elegant one. or maybe its the opposite and just a plain paper? christer

And last a closeup of the badge ! I like these badges Christer